My neighbor and I got started on the giant ash tree yesterday. I got there at 9am and he had already cut the tree into the 16' pieces as I had marked it! I was stunned but he said he was bored on Thursday and had a ball cutting it to size. He also said he really liked having it marked because it saved a bunch of time.
We split for 3 hours and got all but one of the big rounds split (had to quit because of rain). It was great, he pulled his trailer right next to the splitter and as we split we tossed it onto the trailer then we took the trailer to my place were we tossed the wood into the driveway. Then my oldest daughter helped by tossing wood into our lawn trailer and drove it back to the stacks where I built my wall. She asked if I wanted her to help stack and I told he that I would be fine and this way if it fell I could only be mad at myself.....well half the stack tumbled and I had to re-stack :shut: . She sat and texted her friend while I was stacking :smirk: . I had a great time with my friend and my daughter. I'm only a little sore today but it was a great day.
This haul was almost a full cord and we're going to hit it again Saturday. I'll post some pics soon.
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We split for 3 hours and got all but one of the big rounds split (had to quit because of rain). It was great, he pulled his trailer right next to the splitter and as we split we tossed it onto the trailer then we took the trailer to my place were we tossed the wood into the driveway. Then my oldest daughter helped by tossing wood into our lawn trailer and drove it back to the stacks where I built my wall. She asked if I wanted her to help stack and I told he that I would be fine and this way if it fell I could only be mad at myself.....well half the stack tumbled and I had to re-stack :shut: . She sat and texted her friend while I was stacking :smirk: . I had a great time with my friend and my daughter. I'm only a little sore today but it was a great day.
This haul was almost a full cord and we're going to hit it again Saturday. I'll post some pics soon.
fv